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Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has launched a new ?12million programme aimed at increasing the overall competitiveness of local businesses.

Invest Northern Ireland’s new Sustainable Productivity Programme includes a range of activities designed to help the business community achieve operational savings in water, energy and materials use and also identify new opportunities within the high growth renewable energy market.

Top chef and restaurateur Mark Hix is showcasing meat from his Northern Irish supplier, Hannan Meats, at a unique feast for gourmands in his Oyster and Chop House restaurant in London next month.

Lough Neagh Eels from Northern Ireland featured with other food and drink producers from across the United Kingdom in a major showcase for the international media in London.

Holmes Delicatessen, the Northern Irish producer of a wide range of sweet and savoury bakes, tray bakes, desserts and salads, is aiming to build on its recent success in the Great Taste Awards (GTA) to expand sales in the Republic of Ireland and to break into the market in Great Britain.

Whitewater Brewing Company, the leading Northern Irish craft brewer, has secured a listing from Tesco Ireland that has led to its range of bottled craft beers, ales and stout going on sale throughout the Republic of Ireland.

Founder of Squeeze Juice Caf?, the Northern Ireland specialist in healthy wheatgrass juice drinks, Jacquelyn Stewart is in line for a major UK food industry award.

The entrepreneur has reached the final stages of the Leading Edge Leading Lights Awards, which are sponsored by Kraft Foods. She formed the company in Warrenpoint, County Down in 2009.

Invest Northern Ireland is backing Ireland’s top food and drink awards as part of its support for local companies to increase business in the Republic.

Invest NI is sponsoring the Best New Product category in the prestigious Blas na hEireann, Irish Food Awards 2012.

Forty-six food and drink companies racked up a record 198 gold stars for quality products in this year’s UK Great Taste Awards, Alastair Hamilton, Invest Northern Ireland Chief Executive, announced today.

Hannan Meats, the Northern Irish meat business, has set a new gold standard in the prestigious UK Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste Awards. The company was awarded 26 gold stars, the largest ever haul of awards by a single UK producer, in the history of the annual event.

Fivemiletown Creamery, Northern Ireland’s leading producer of handcrafted speciality cheese gained six gold stars in the UK Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste Awards, announced on Friday.